University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

The plants contain significantly more biomass for fuel production Hydrogen sulfide, the pungent stuff often referred to as sewer gas, is a deadly substance implicated in several mass extinctions, including one at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago that wiped out more than three-quarters of all species on Earth. But in

Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine itself. A Band-Aid is placed on a skinned knee. Drops go into itchy eyes. A broken arm goes into a cast. But often what ails us is inside the body and is not so easy to reach. In such cases,

Since the late 60´s electronic devices have stored and transmitted information (bits) in two-dimensional circuits. Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have been able to break this barrier by creating a nanoscale magnetic circuit capable of moving information along the three dimensions of space. This breakthrough could lead to an important increase in storage

A home appliance that grows the ingredients for a healthy meal within a week from plant cells is no longer science fiction. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd’s first 3D-printed CellPod prototype is already producing harvests. VTT and its plant biotechnology research scientists have the vision of developing a home appliance for the markets

Now here’s something we’ve never seen before – a rechargeable lightglobe. Chinese company Magic Bulb has patented a new type of device which incorporates a battery and LED lightblobe to produce a lightglobe which uses only 4 watts but produces the equivalent light of a traditional 50W globe. If the power fails, the globe will

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world’s thinnest silicon material. Their research holds the promise of building dramatically faster, smaller and more efficient computer chips. Made of a one-atom-thick layer of silicon atoms, silicene has outstanding electrical properties but has

Rice U. researchers find nano-thin films of hexagonal boron nitride protect materials from oxidizing Atomically thin sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have the handy benefit of protecting what’s underneath from oxidizing even at very high temperatures, Rice University researchers have discovered. One or several layers of the material sometimes called “white graphene” keep materials

The VELOCIRoACH manages top speeds of almost nine feet per second, despite being the size of, well, a cockroach If you’ve ever seen cockroaches scuttle across the floor and out of reach, you know how frustratingly fast they can be. A researcher at the University of California, Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab has capitalized on that

Trains might be a reasonably cheap transport option – but rail infrastructure is very costly to build. Monorail, maglev systems and high speed rail are more expensive again – and prices really skyrocket when you have to build bridges, tunnels and winding mountain routes, or cover difficult terrain. Which is why Anatoly Unitsky’s String Transport